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Silence to Light: Japan and the Shadows of War
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Paperback. On the 60th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack, this work illuminates the tumultuous period, and the aftermath, of World War II and the war in Asia. It brings to light personal and communal memories through fiction, memoirs, film scripts and poetry. Editor(s): Stewart, Frank; Lowitz, Leza. Num Pages: 220 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJF; HBLW3; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 200 x 170 x 17. Weight in Grams: 463.
On the sixtieth anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack, Silence to Light illuminates the tumultuous period, and the aftermath of World War II and the war in Asia. Through fiction, memoirs, film scripts, poetry, and manga (Japanese cartoons), the volume brings to light the personal and communal memories that have disappeared into silence. Readers get a new and vivid perspective on such events as the Manchurian Incident, the rape of Nanking, Japanese American internment, and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The authors include well-know Japanese figures, such as Yukio Mishima and Dazai Osamu, and such contemporary authors as Hayashi ... Read more
On the sixtieth anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack, Silence to Light illuminates the tumultuous period, and the aftermath of World War II and the war in Asia. Through fiction, memoirs, film scripts, poetry, and manga (Japanese cartoons), the volume brings to light the personal and communal memories that have disappeared into silence. Readers get a new and vivid perspective on such events as the Manchurian Incident, the rape of Nanking, Japanese American internment, and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The authors include well-know Japanese figures, such as Yukio Mishima and Dazai Osamu, and such contemporary authors as Hayashi ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824824365
SKU
V9780824824365
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About
Frank Stewart is the author of four books and the editor of six, primarily on Pacific and Asian writers and literature. Leza Lowitz is an award-winning translator and the coeditor and cotranslator of two anthologies of contemporary Japanese women's poetry, A Long Rainy Season and Other Side River.
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